Chris Daly’s profane New Year’s resolution

Forget losing weight, exercising more or saving money. A standard New Year’s resolution simply won’t do for the perennially button-pushing Supervisor Chris Daly.

He announced at the rules committee hearing this morning – and reiterated on his Facebook page – that “For 2010, I vow to use the word “f—” in each of my remaining Board of Supervisors meetings.” He’s termed out of office a year from Friday so that means dozens of potential Daly f-bombs are on the way.

We called Daly for comment on his resolution and upon asking the standard, “How are you?” got, “I’m f-ing great” as a reply. But the resolution has some seriousness to it too, he said.

“I think that unfortunately, I’m speaking to some real discontent that’s out there,” he said. “There are pent-up feelings of frustration with the economy, with politics, with all sorts of things. The word f— actually does a pretty good job of drawing that out.”

The father of two young children said he’s dramatically cut back on swearing around the house, but that he’s not fearful of little kids watching Board of Supervisors meetings because they’re generally dreadfully boring. He added that his resolutions, like hitting the gym more, don’t often last past February so he’s not promising this one will either.

“With a throw-away (Facebook) status update getting this much attention, I’m not sure what you guys are going to do when I’m gone,” he said. We’re wondering the same thing.

UPDATE: Upon learning of the resolution, Board President David Chiu gave Daly a call. “As the Board of Supervisors, we need to be an example of civil and mature leadership,” Chiu told us. “I told him I thought he could do better.”

Then Chiu went to a nearby Walgreens, bought a bar of soap and delivered it to Daly’s office. Seriously. Just another day at City Hall.

UPDATE: As board president, Chiu is considered the presiding officer and under board rules regarding disorderly conduct, has the power to ask a sheriff’s deputy to remove anybody from the chambers who is exhibiting “insolent behavior.”

Angela Calvillo, clerk of the board, said she believes supervisors themselves would be included under this rule. She added, though, that “This particular supervisor has had a colorful past in the board chambers, and the president has not used this rule.” Guess we’ll see whether Chiu’s bar of soap does the trick first.